Perchance to dream
Grand hotels, Irish art and glorious, glorious chintz
"It is the spirit of tuxedo-clad, louche, Oliver Tobias, 1970s disco, travelling at speed on a pair of Chanel skis, after arriving on a private jet"
"A blank white canvas with a mirror doesn’t tell me to look deep into my soul. It tells me that the person behind the work is a very lazy artist"
Chrissy Iley on a secret rooftop garden in London, with a pool worth dying for – or in
"Such is the way of the wine pairing. There’s often just too much wine..."
Enjoying a city with world class modernist architecture is especially good when you can check in to one of its living monuments. Derek Guthrie drinks in the beauty to be found above street level in Europe’s favourite weekend destination – but skips the sangria
Fanfarlo have been checked-in to some odd hotels on tour. None more so than a certain nudist colony in Austria. Trumpet player Leon Beckenham gets an eyeful
Behind the grand columns of the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco, the cineastes of Amy Grimehouse find something very interesting in the kitchen, and peculiar in the mini bar
Woman's best friend isn't always a welcome guest. A ban on dogs in hotels can be a bigger annoyance to dog lovers than paying for wifi (is anyone really still doing that?). Elisa Anniss goes to Dartmoor and finds some canine-friendly luxury
The historic Gothic fantasia of the reopened St. Pancras Hotel now has some not-so-new competition in the form of Victorian London's original railway hotel
